Month: October 2011

JIM’S NEW WESTERN HAT

I bumped into my friend Jim at breakfast the other day.  It was a blustery, rainy day and he was sporting a short-brimmed, leather Western-style hat. 

Jim, like myself, is “hair impaired” and talked about how great the hat was in the rain.  He bragged about how well it protected his (hairless) head.  I pointed out the relatively narrow brim didn’t put the drip line outside the parameters of his body.  He’s a pretty big guy and we discussed how wide the hat brim would have to be to accomplish that.
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Baby Boomers: Will there be enough gold for the “Golden Years”?

The Baby Boomer generation is creating  “Battle of the Bulge”.  Baby Boomers might not like it but they are a bulge.

I was listening to a commentator recently who was talking about the current economic crisis and the implications for the Baby Boomer generation.  He described them as the “bulge going through the snake”.  We’ve all heard variations of this theme.

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Wall Street vs Main Street Upside Down Cartoon

The cartoon used in this clip was created in response to the original Wall Street Bail-out. 

I am currently in the process of doing a video series demonstrating how to draw a variety of “Upside-down cartoons”… Cartoons, that when turned upside down, turn into something else. 

As I watched the evening news one night, I decided to do my own commentary using the cartoon as a backdrop. This cartoon was included in one of those training clips.  Now, you can draw it yourself!